Books in progress
Lots of reading going on over the last few days. Taken to the Amazon Kindle sale to stock up on some of my old faves. Ed McBain’s 87th Precinct stories are a great wee piece of escapism for me, however, they are short so I grudge paying £8 or so for a book I will read in a night. This is why I nab as many as I can when they go on sale (ie now).
This week’s digital reads are JD Robb stories. I love the Eve Dallas books and as work has been a bit hectic this week I am re-visiting one or two of the Dallas stories I remember less well from the first read through.
In paperback I am reading FAN – kindly provided by Sophie from @ReviewedTheBook. This one is full on and I am reading it in bursts as I find it intense and not always in a good way. Must check with Sophie if she found any empathy for the protagonist (I am feeling sorry for his fiancee more than him).
A full review of FAN will follow soon as this is a book everyone should see.
Finally – I was planning attending an author signing this week in Edinburgh but found out it had been cancelled late in the day. Both the publisher and author offered me apologies on Twitter after I posted my disappointment. See – there ARE nice people on Twitter.
I never loved his character but I did empathise with him because it was the way Hillsborough was impacting on his life. To me, if you’re lucky enough not to witness or have friends and family affected by a disaster like Hillsborough then you wouldn’t really know what it does to someone, so I guess that’s why I empathised with John rather than more so for his wife.
Maybe you’ll have more empathy the further you get although I don’t think you really need to to appreciate the novel. I agree it is intense though.